Description

Marble, off white. Female figure, draped. preserved from level of shoulders to level of knees. Arms, head, upper back missing, once attached seperately. Luce stated that there are dowel holes for the attachment of the missing legs. She wears a chiton, girt beneath the breasts. Over this a mantle is slung, draped diagonally across the upper back and over the left shoulder. It is girt in a heavy fold around mid-body and falls in an irregular line to the upper thighs. Left arm drawn back. Large finished area at upper back.

[Article] Bilde, Pia G. 1998. "Those Nemi Sculptures...": Marbles from a Roman Sanctuary in the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. 40 (3) : Page/Fig./Plate: 43